Posted by David on March 03, 19101 at 07:47:13:
I bought a 38 meg FireWire drive from macslaes.com and an Orange Micro PCI card to attach it
to my beige powermac - it's been nothing but a pain in the ass - first problem is a bunch of
conflicting inits- apple's - Orange micro's and the firm whose outer box houses the drive -
Then I found the data I copied to it was transferring slower than even USB - and then I found
that I couldn't copy it back without the drive freezing - Now I find neither NUM 4.0.3 nor
NUM 6.0 can run Disc Doctor for it without freezing - I reinitialised it using mu Apple disc Tools
initialiser and started again - but it's stil proving be to be very iffy - I'm told to get rid of the
proprietorial inits and reply on Apple's only - but that doesn't help either. Basically I don't
know if it would be so unhappy plugged into a G4 - but plugged into this PCI card is
a nitemare